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Using Collaborative Plans to Model the Intentional Structure of Discourse (1994)  (Make Corrections)  (161 citations)
Karen Elizabeth Lochbaum



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Abstract: An agent's ability to understand an utterance depends upon its ability to relate that utterance to the preceding discourse. The agent must determine whether the utterance begins a new segment of the discourse, completes the current segment, or contributes to it. The intentional structure of the discourse, comprised of discourse segment purposes and their interrelationships, plays a central role in this process (Grosz and Sidner, 1986). In this thesis, we provide a computational model for... (Update)

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Lochbaum, K. E. 1994. Using collaborative plans to model the intentional structure of discourse. TR 25-94, Harvard Univ., Ctr. for Res. in Computing Tech. PhD thesis. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/lochbaum94using.html   More

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